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Posted on September 2, 2025
September 5 is the International Day of Charity, and while many of us are struggling to take care of our own, sometimes giving just a little can mean a lot. Think of the bell ringers around the holidays – all that pocket change that goes into those red buckets really adds up. So, if you are so incli...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on August 27, 2025
Many farmers preserve forage as dry hay, but for some, baleage is a good alternative. Depending on storage conditions, losses in baled dry hay stored outdoors is between 10% and 30%, while properly wrapped baleage should have almost no quality loss. Storage for baleage is less costly than a chopped ...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on August 27, 2025
The Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance recently celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Jim Hershey farm in Elizabethtown, PA. One of the featured demonstrations was a soil pit, which was dug directly under recently planted sorghum-sudangrass. Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator, Stroud Water Research C...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on August 27, 2025
Once hailed as a green guardian of soil health, annual ryegrass has now gone rogue in New York State. A cover crop champion turned chemical-defying challenger, this fast-growing plant has morphed into a resistant renegade, surviving glyphosate sprays and turning heads in the worst way. Research titl...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on August 27, 2025
When Melissa Cantor was raising calves at the University of Kentucky as an undergrad, she realized there was a need to identify animals that were getting sick. Cantor also speculated that machine learning might be a tool to help detect illness prior to animals showing clinical signs. Today, Cantor i...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on August 27, 2025
So, what’s the difference between the United Soybean Board (USB) and the American Soybean Association (ASA)? Tracy Snider, senior manager of state relations with the ASA, explained how the organizations differ at the recent 2025 New York Corn & Soybean Summer Crop Tour hosted by Rodman Lott & Son Fa...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on August 27, 2025
Three growing seasons ago, during the middle of summer, I took a few soil samples on a southern Herkimer County dairy farm. One of the fields sampled that I found particularly interesting had been planted to a mix of forage soybeans and brown midrib sorghum two weeks earlier. There appeared to be mo...
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Andy Haman 
Posted on August 24, 2025
New York State’s Woodmen’s Field Days, held annually at the Boonville-Oneida County Fairgrounds, is a crown jewel of the Northeast’s logging industry and a fan-favorite of anyone who works in proximity to forestry and logging, farming or just enjoys the “buzz” of everything from the latest hand tool...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on August 20, 2025
Beyond cow comfort, it’s important to reduce the effects of heat stress in a dairy herd. Heat stress causes direct financial losses – and not just from reduced milk production. “It affects reproduction substantially,” said Jon Mills, herd manager at Morrisville State College Dairy Complex. “Their in...
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Rebecca Long Chaney 
October 22, 2025
While many Maryland farmers continue to battle aggravating regulations, increased input costs and fluctuating market prices, other Old Line State farm...
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Karl H. Kazaks 
October 1, 2025
LOWESVILLE, VA – Deer Creek Farm is a registered Simmental and SimAngus operation owned by Mark and Dana Campbell. Located in western Nelson County wi...
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jkarkwren 
October 22, 2025
Grayhouse Farms is the recipient of the 2025 Carolinas Leopold Conservation Award®. The award honors farmers and forestland owners who go above and be...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
September 24, 2025
According to Tim Terry, farm strategic planning specialist with Cornell University’s PRO-DAIRY , the calf hutch is still the gold standard for raising...